[agents] 2nd Call for Papers, DEON 2023, deadline March 1, 2023 (abstract)

[Leon VAN DER TORRE]

2nd Call for papers: 16th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems (DEON 2023)


Abstract submission deadline: March 1st 2023


Paper submission deadline: March 31st 2023


For details, visit www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023<http://www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023>


The 16th International Conference on Deontic Logic and Normative Systems

(DEON 2023) will be held at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

(Trois-Rivières, Canada) on July 5-6-7 2023 (see www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023<http://www.uqtr.ca/DEON2023>).


DEON 2023 will focus on the theme

Theoretical and technical limitations of automated behavior.


We further invite submissions pertaining to the following topics (the list

is non-exclusive):


• the logical study of normative reasoning, including formal systems of deontic logic, defeasible normative reasoning, logics of action, logics of time, and other related areas of logic

• the formal analysis of normative concepts, normative systems (and their dynamics)

• the formal specification of aspects of norm-governed multi-agent systems and autonomous agents, including (but not limited to) the representation of rights, authorization, delegation, power, responsibility and liability

• the normative aspects of protocols for communication, negotiation and multi-agent decision making

• the formal analysis of the semantics and pragmatics of deontic and normative expressions in natural language, including modals, imperatives, deontic verbs and adjectives, and discourse particles

• advances in formal models of context and discourse structure that aim to explain the use of deontic expressions in natural language, and their significance for communication, action and social structures

• the formal representation of legal knowledge

• the formal specification of normative systems for the management of bureaucratic processes in public or private administration

• applications of normative logic to the specification of database integrity constraints

• game theoretic aspects of deontic reasoning

• emergence of norms, including its logical and computational representation

• deontic paradoxes and their philosophical and linguistic import

• the connection between argumentation theory and normative reasoning, including the role of reasons and justifications
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